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Patrick Hemingway, Last Surviving Child of Ernest Hemingway, Dies at 97

As executor of his father's estate, he influenced posthumous editions, reissues, plus commercial licensing.

Overview

  • His grandson, Patrick Hemingway Adams, confirmed he died Tuesday at his home in Bozeman, Montana.
  • The Harvard graduate spent formative decades in East Africa, working as a farmer, safari guide, educator, and a forestry officer with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization.
  • He approved revised reissues of classics such as A Farewell to Arms and A Moveable Feast and backed broader brand ventures including apparel, eyewear, rugs, and Papa's Pilar Rum.
  • He assembled the 1999 release True at First Light from roughly 800 pages of his father's manuscripts, cutting the material by more than half in a move that drew criticism from some readers and scholars.
  • Married twice and father to Mina (Edwina), he had lived in Bozeman since the mid-1970s, closing a family generation marked by literary influence and personal tragedy.